Accelerated cosmic expansion : proceedings of the fourth international meeting on gravitation and cosmology / [edited by] Claudia Moreno Gonzalez, Jose Edgar Madriz Aguilar and Luz Marina Reyes Barrera.

This volume is an collection of papers representing the proceedings of the IV International meeting on Gravitation and Cosmology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface;
Acknowledgements;
Committee;
Part I Modified Theories of Gravity;
1. Recovering Flat Rotation Curves and Galactic Dynamics From f(R)-Gravity;
2. Nine Years of f(R) Gravity and cosmology;
3. A Geometrical Approach to Brans-Dicke Theory;
4. Gravitational Anomalies Signaling the Breakdown of Classical Gravity;

Part II Cosmology and Dark Energy;
5. Vector Fields Resembling Dark Energy;
6. Diameter Angular Distance in Locally Inhomogeneous Models;
7. Non Singular Origin of the Universe and its Connection to the Cosmological Constant Problem (CCP);
8. Tunneling and the Emergent Universe Scheme;
9. A Review on the Scalar Field/Bose-Einstein Condensate
Dark Matter Model;
10. Why we need dark energy;
11. Non-spherical viods: the best alternative to dark energy?;
12. Finding new signature effects on galactic dynamics to constrain;
13. Inhomogeneous and interacting vacuum energy;

Part III Other topics
14. Relativistic dust thin disks with halo and magnetic field;
15. Tomographic represention of quantum and classical Cosmology;
Index.